Barry On the Beach - 1981 - a photo on Flickriver

Barry On the Beach - 1981

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

This weekend I was sitting out front watching a tug pull a log boom out of Muir Creek.

Wally's wife walked by on the other side of the sea grass; she stood watching the tug for a while.

Then she turned and saw me sitting against the cabin.

She waved.

I waved back.

She said, "Jesus, good thing I wasn't taking a piss or something, eh?"

I laughed.

She laughed.

She left.

I smiled to myself. Not a bad Saturday night.

- Barry Macleod

He was so funny, so entertaining, so good at capturing in words the little, everyday events that make life a blast. During the 12 years I knew him, he moved from Vancouver to smaller Victoria and then out to Tugwell Creek, to live in a little cabin fifty feet from the shoreline of Juan de Fuca Strait, on southern Vancouver Island. The short piece above was found in his papers after his death in 1986 from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, at 44. I still think of him often: good times, good times.

They weren't all good times for Macleod; for long periods he was broke, and the isolation could be crushing. But it drove him to the typewriter - these were pre-computer years - and a few of his short stories were subsequently published. And then he was gone. After his death, friends Pam and Doug edited his letters and assorted writings and compiled them into a book, "The Tugwell Years" - www.flickr.com/photos/pjwoodland/38587319236

A grey day; you can see wisps of fog in the background. During my visits we would walk the beach, play chess, talk, laugh, carry on like there was no tomorrow. And for Barry, there wasn't. But what a mind he had! I recently mentioned the importance of turning regular real life into an adventure; it's something I learned from him.

I made this shot with a Rolleicord medium format film camera on the beach at Tugwell Creek, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1981 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Shirley (show map)

Taken on: December 1, 1981

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